Derek Collins
Personal information
Full name	Derek Collins
Date of birth	10 July 1969 (1969-07-10) (age 40)
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
	Renfrew Waverley
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987–1998 1998–2001 2000–2001 2001 2001 2001–2005 2005–2006	Greenock Morton Hibernian → Partick Thistle (loan) → Preston North End (loan) → Sliema Wanderers (loan) Greenock Morton Gretna	417 0(11) 040 00(0) 012 00(1) 000 00(0) 00? 00(?) 117 00(1) 017 00(0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:53, 26 September 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Derek Collins (born 10 July 1969 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former professional footballer.

Collins started his playing career with Greenock Morton where he spent over a decade after making his debut in 1987. In 1997 Collins joined Hibernian and returned to Greenock Morton via loan spells at Preston North End^[1], Partick Thistle^[2] and Sliema Wanderers of Malta^[3]

In his second spell with Greenock Morton, Collins established himself as the holder of the record number of appearances for the club. (534 appearances, overtaking the previous record holder, David Wylie, by 52 games.)

In January 2005, Collins signed for Gretna where he combined his playing role with coaching duties before becoming a coach full-time for the 2006-07 season.

Derek Collins also has the honour of being the only player to play in all four of Scotland's senior leagues with the same club (Greenock Morton) a feat he achieved when he captained Morton against Gretna in Gretna's first ever Scottish League game.

When Davie Irons left Gretna for Morton as manager, Collins went with him as his assistant.

In September 2009, after a poor start to the season, Collins and Irons were sacked by Morton.^[4]

Contents 1 Honours 1.1 Gretna 1.2 Greenock Morton (second spell) 1.3 Partick Thistle 1.4 Hibernian 1.5 Greenock Morton (first spell) 2 External links 3 References

[edit] Honours

[edit] Gretna

• Scottish Second Division: 1
  

2005–06

• Scottish Third Division: 1
  

2004–05

[edit] Greenock Morton (second spell)

• Scottish Third Division: 1
  

2002–03

[edit] Partick Thistle

• Scottish Second Division: 1
  

2000–01

[edit] Hibernian

• Scottish First Division: 1
  

1998–99

[edit] Greenock Morton (first spell)

• Scottish Second Division: 1
  

1994–95

[edit] External links

• Derek Collins career stats at Soccerbase

[edit] References

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